The Sydney Writer’s Festival sounds like a right old barrel of positivity and empowerment. Continually oppressed attendees miraculously managed to muster the energy to take to the mic and exchange tales of victimhood.

One journo from The Age writes, “For too long we have clung to the idea of ‘himpathy’, as Washington Times journalist Irin Carmon so perfectly described it at the writers’ festival, the disproportionate empathy that we extend to men.